“Do you like Shakespeare or somethin?”
I went to get my car’s oil changed today. The attendant sees me get out of the car with a T-Shirt that says “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit ~Shakespeare” and a copy of Shakespeare Quarterly sticking out of my pocket.
“Do you like Shakespeare or somethin?”
“Uhh…. yeah.”
I wonder what different reactions I’d get if I went around sporting Star Wars merchandise. Would I still get a comment about it?
So who else has some geeky stories? Maybe you’re not so nerdy, but if you have any remotely similar experiences please share!
Posted on April 5, 2008
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A.K.Farrar Apr 6
Around the age of 16 I acquired the nick-name ‘Shakespeare’ - not, I hesitate to add, because of any ‘Geekiness’ in me - apart from anything else I don’t think that breed had evolved - but because the edition of the play we were studying happened to have on it an image of Shakespeare which had an uncanny resemblance to me!
(I have to point out I had a goatee early and ‘receding hairline’ even earlier.)
Perhaps the name-calling actually stimulated my interest - one never knows these things.